latimes.com – By Steve Lopez – How have we gotten to a point in Los Angeles where the arrest of a City Councilman is not just unsurprising, but anti-climactic? Councilman Jose Huizar, once a political rising star, crashed and burned Tuesday morning when he was arrested on a charge of federal racketeering, accused of running “a criminal enterprise that used his powerful position at City Hall to solicit and accept lucrative bribes and other financial benefits to enrich himself and his close associates.”
Ho-hum and what else is new, right?
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